Word: irring
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...important point revealed by another witness was that he had sold Socony and Vacuum products ir competition...
...provision of the Treaty of Versailles IK German citizen may act as an instructor ir foreign armies...
...Circumferences." When Iowa's Ernest Horn became wrought up over the inadequacy of the English alphabet to represent sounds accurately, he started calculating-14 sounds for "s," 22 for "long e," 21 for "ir," etc. Variant spellings for "ir" intrigued him: (h) er, (s) ir, (ch) or (ade), (c) er (tain), err, (theat)re (m)yrrh. For lowan reasons were included (n)ear, (hon)or. When he finished with "circumference," he figured 396,000,000 phonetic spellings...
...Irénée du Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...
...last week's debate the affirmative team, composed of D. D. Lloyd '31, R. H. Jones of Harvard, and Mary Glaser '30 and Catherine Ruggles '32 of Radcliffe, as awarded the decision. Tonight he negative team, with L. B. Cohen, ir. '32, D. I. Cooke '31, Mrs. Edith Linden '30 and Mary Kenyon '32 as speakers, will get another chance to best their opponents, Censorship will again in the subject of the discussion...